Pratiba Bhat

Food Writer, Researcher and Photographer, Gardener, Engineer.

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@PTI_News Sigh! Even the very first statement is untrue. There's no way he hasn't watched the video—who is he trying to fool?

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@roshovani Hello Rohit Sir. Very well written. Thats a lot on tweets 😊 But I always thought Panjurli is the spirit of a pet baby boar of Parvathi. There's a little story there. I couldn't understand how are Varaha and Panjurli the same?

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One of the things in the bucket list of this gardener is to cultivate natural loofahs / luffa in the garden and see a resurgence of home made loofah growing all over the vines around the hothouse, rekindle and pass… https://t.co/aiyRq1iln7

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Recipes cooked from jackfruit seeds are many. In the Asian continents, people vouch for recipes made from these seeds as sustainable and simple. Obbattu, rasam, thambuli, palya, sambhar or a charred tea time snack… https://t.co/20by58UKVn

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I was just looking into this old decrepit book that was written in the 70’s, “Dictionary of Philippine folk beliefs and customs”, and it says, if one finds money on the streets, he’d be poor throughout his life and… https://t.co/4clCxnP5I4

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The older generations have this thing to say everytime when jackfruits and mangoes are in season, “hasidu halasu tinnu, undu maavu tinnu”, which implies, eat jackfruit when you are hungry and round off your meal… https://t.co/tLzHsA2BAJ

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Jaggery in its glory since it's discovery and this went into the engaging course with the mellow yellow Jackfruit to become an object of an enticing palate. #MandyaJaggery

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#udupirecipes #teakleaves… https://t.co/x6lGBhvUQG

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... extending the Pelakai / Gujje streak from where I paused and stood still extolling the charm of this beast of fruits. Plucking through the fresh Sole or the Thole, as many call it, I was reminded of how my… https://t.co/N5R8yAZ9ag

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And then.... This dramatic jackfruit is driven to recur, because we are not done yet! 😊
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🍂 One bisection has been devoured and this half is progressing to take a form of something so intimate to my… https://t.co/AAUZJIWlHU

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Ragi rottis, nugge soppu chutney pudi, peere chutney or (the peere bajji) as we call in it my native ooru's language, bella (jaggery) and hot ghee is something I could not envisage qualifying for today's breakfast. I… https://t.co/rnleUzsM5t

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Vasudeva, you ushered in such a huge difference in how I perceive and receive circumstances. All my life I struggled to secure a belief and strode through the wrong side of the street most of the times. You came down… https://t.co/yZQQCzkSnn

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Pelakai... How magnificent are you in a dark and gloomy frame, alone! I discovered that you are the most beautiful subject before pumpkins, that demands no complementary prep for a photograph. It's a melancholy that… https://t.co/rlEOSsAfPj

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🍃🍃 Today, some beautiful baby cabbages came by, on a cycle, driven by an old vendor hollering at a tone so loud that makes homemakers in the neighborhood withdraw from every mundane task just to hit the streets and… https://t.co/Ej9ZfIvb6W

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In the wake of my rounds of early Surya Namaskars during the Bhramamuhurta hours of the day, the chirps of the sparrows coupled with the trickling sounds coming from the coffee filter is the kind of hymn my ears… https://t.co/aBCy9Luj0c

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Been an overdue and a drawn-out moment since I came into the frame in my pictures! That was a caress to the heart 🌷🍃
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#thewonderinglight #almonds #allkindsofmagic #artistsoninstagram #aquietstyle… https://t.co/1C6fVzvZLq

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The festal Garuda Panchami (Nagara Panchami) is such a purposeful festival celebrated in most parts of India. There are disparate tales and folklores conveying the significance of this most significant festival and… https://t.co/iozC0w7XYL

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Conjuring up a scenario, where the world seems more placid, free from pandemonium, people living in utmost truce and pause, a civilisation that is self sustaining and doing no vandalism. And I envisage this world… https://t.co/dzTx0QcSGX

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🌱🌱 Last summer was a chaotic garden produce with a thin harvest! The vegetable plants, after a six month struggle with far - flung breeding snails, breeding angry birds waiting to bite into the fruits of my labour,… https://t.co/uGs0vRu2Er

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History has recorded a beautiful chain of events just bring the humble ice and the ice cream to India. Today, its just cinch and simple to make a lip smacking kulfi / and ice cream using a churner, more cardinally,… https://t.co/lscSOJiEun

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Traversing back to several thousands of years ago, we come across the most mysterious and interesting epochs of all times, the vedic B.C.s. Cooking during the vedic times had all the elements that lead to a balanced… https://t.co/5G8UGZFzWY